Effect of decompression range on decompression limit of cervical laminoplasty.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study suggests that the decompression range affected the decompression limit by changing the decompression type of a particular level. For a given cervical spinal level, the decompression limit significantly varied with decompression type as follows: ED < ID < CD. CD provided maximal decompression limit for a given level. A reasonable range of decompression could be determined based on the relationship between the magnitude of the ventral compressive factor and the decompression limits achieved by different decompression ranges.
PMID: 32187049 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Chinese Medical Journal - March 15, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Diao YZ, Yu M, Zhang FS, Sun Y, Wang SB, Zhang L, Pan SF, Liu ZJ, Li WS Tags: Chin Med J (Engl) Source Type: research